About

Ankit Singh is an experienced Software Engineer currently working as a Software Engineer III at Zuora. He has a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Science from Birla Institute of Technology and is currently pursuing a Master of Computer Science from North Carolina State University. Ankit has over 3 years of relevant experience in the information technology and services industry and is skilled in Puppet, Configuration Management, Redhat, Python, Design, and Full-Stack Automation Solutions. Ankit has worked on various projects during his tenure at Société Générale and North Carolina State University. He has led the formation of a 4-member Puppet COE Configuration Management team and launched Puppet Lab, a hands-on learning roadmap for puppet upskilling. He has also performed hiring and onboarding of experienced resources with proficiency in Configuration Management, hired 2 experienced resources for the Puppet COE team. Ankit has been honored with the Young Graduate of the Year award and promoted to Specialist Software Engineer for his contribution to team formation. Ankit has worked on several projects related to Security, Mass Deployment, Software Development, and Automation. He has implemented CIS Benchmark rules for RedHat 6,7 applying Base Profile in Puppet and leveraging Hiera for segregation based on Business Units and Regions. This led to SWIFT Compliance on 40000+ servers over AMER, ASIA, and EUR regions, saving more than 70% in penalties. Ankit has also created Puppet Modules for mass deployment of various agents like Zabbix, Beats, Networker, etc. using base profile Implementation for RedHat and AIX. He has improvised to a 65% decrease in reported incidents. Ankit has coded a Proof of Concept for a dashboard tracking Compliance Status based on CIS benchmarks and saving 60% in license costs for redundant Qualys Scans. He has also architected an asynchronous model for Automation of Manual Prechecks on RedHat Linux based on Puppet, Python, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL to provide GO/NOGO for Patching. This achieved a 99.2% increase in efficiency and 80% reduction in Manual Intervention, recording an all-time high of 12000 servers patched in a day. Ankit is a skilled Software Engineer with a strong engineering background and a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. He is currently working as a Software Engineer Intern at Zuora and is looking to continue his career as a Software Engineer.